The Vintage Guide to Classical Music
An Indispensable Guide for Understanding and Enjoying Classical Music
$51.73
- Paperback
624 pages
- Release Date
2 March 1993
Summary
The most readable and comprehensive guide to enjoying over five hundred years of classical music – from Gregorian chants, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Johannes Brahms, Igor Stravinsky, John Cage, and beyond.
The Vintage Guide to Classical Music is a lively – and opinionated – musical history and an insider’s key to the personalities, epochs, and genres of the Western classical tradition. Among its features:
- Chronologically arranged essays on near…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679728054 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0679728058 |
| Author: | Jan Swafford |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 2 March 1993 |
| Weight: | 482g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 132mm x 202mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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Jan Swafford
Composer and writer Jan Swafford received degrees from Harvard and the Yale School of Music; his work has been played throughout the United States and abroad. Among his awards are an NEA Composers Grant, a Tanglewood Fellowship and a Mellon Faculty Fellowship at Harvard.
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